Apotheosis of the exhibitionist

Dalrymple endures a little of the output of the popular singer David Bownie so we don’t have to, and concludes that its principal characteristic is

banality.

He adds that

the principal characteristic of Bownie’s lyrics

is

their appeal to people whose idea of human suffering is the natural consequence of their own self-indulgence. And this is now a mass phenomenon. We live in societies in which an unprecedented proportion of the total of suffering is self-inflicted.